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Public
Image Ltd.
The Metal Box. 2006
Vinyl
re-issue out now:
See review
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August
4th 2007 |
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 Tom
Snyder, aged 71, died last
Sunday, July 29th, from complications
associated with leukaemia. Tom is
probably best known to PiL fans through
his infamous interview with John
Lydon & Keith Levene on 'The
Tomorrow Show', June 27th
1980.
Numerous
tributes and press reports have appeared
including an article on music-news
gathering source Contact
Music; which features unaccredited
quotes apparently from Keith
Levene regarding Tom's passing:
"I
am very sad to hear the news that Tom
Snyder has passed away. He was a brilliant
asset to television, a great example
and role model. "I had a memorable
interview with Tom and memories of
it are flooding back fast following
this tragic news. Although it was a
different style of interview, Tom still
managed to keep his cool and his professionalism
intact. Tom is a TV talk show saint
who will live in our memories forever
- bless you Tom." Keith
Levene, Contact Music, July 31st 2007
A transcription
of the legendary 'Tomorrow
Show' interview
can be found in the Fodderstompf archives.
John Lydon's 1997 interview with
Tom for the 'Late
Late Show' can also
be found on JohnLydon.Com. |
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 Keith
Levene played his first live
show in over 20 years on July
25th at
the Bouga Cocktail Lounge in London.
Keith appeared at 'Moroccan
Mirage'; a charity event in aid of The
Peter Tatchell Human Rights Fund.
It is not known what
material Keith performed, however, this
preview article from GumTree.Com makes
promise of 'Metal Box' era PiL tracks;
as well as 'Killer in the Crowd' from
MurderGlobal.
Some additional info
on the event can be found at Contact
Music. WireImage also
have several pictures of
Keith; who recently celebrated
his 50th birthday.
Thanks to Karsten |
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Jah
Wobble reviews The
Cult of the Amateur: How Today's Internet
Is Killing Our Culture by Andrew
Keen in
last weekend's Independent on Sunday.
Thanks to "The
List" |
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July
21st 2007 |
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| 'Bodog
Battle of the Bands' is
currently showing Wednesdays on Fuse
TV 10pm EST / 7pm PST. If you don't
get Fuse TV – or you live outside
the USA – you can watch the full
show online free via
the Bodog website. See JL.Com for
full details… |
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Martin
Atkins Tour:Smart is
now available via the Underground
Inc website. The book will
be in shops early September. (Full
review coming soon.) 'More Q than A'
the latest installment of Martin's
Tour:Smart column for SuicideGirls.com is
now online…
Martin has a gallery
show at Fuse in NYC
from August 15th-22nd; and will
be doing various DJ nights, book signings,
lectures and seminars in the coming weeks.
Keep an eye on the www.tstouring.com website for
more info. The sixth Pigface studio album
is in its final mix and should be released
before the end of the year.
Thanks to Underground
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The NIC
MySpace page has the following
update on the forthcoming 'NIC
in Dub' album featuring
Keith Levene; now set for a September/October
release. See NIC
MySpace for more information;
as well as photos and preview tracks.
NIC IN DUB WILL BE RELEASED
LATE SEPT.-OCT.THROUGH ARZA RECORDS IN
THE US+ DIGITAL,ALONG WITH HAMMERBASS
IN EUROPE! WICKED PISSA! About the NIC
in DUB project: The dub project originated
from the Scotty Hard/Keith Levene recording
sessions. The NIC in DUB was an experiment
not as a remix album but a "mix
album"; the invited musicians created
their own track out of 3 jams sent to
them. Every mix sounds different than
the next and all compliment each other.
It's a great listen! We want a World
DUB Shake Down!!! Thanks so much for
your time, your mixes and your blessings.
Love, Light, and DUB!!!.............Next
dub project coming soon! Ted and N.I.C |
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Further information
on Wobble's Liverpool City of Culture
2008 collboration with the Liverpool
Chinese Youth Orchestra is
available via the icliverpool.co.uk
website:
Jah Wobble, a former
member of John Lydon’s post-Sex
Pistols group, Public Image Ltd, will
collaborate with Liverpool’s Chinese
Youth Orchestra on a work called Chinese
Dub.
Zi Lan, the youth orchestra's
arts officer, said: ''This is the best
news we could have possibly had. The
orchestra is so excited at the prospect
of working with Jah Wobble, he's such
a talented musician and to create a pop
single with him and a two-hour long piece
is the opportunity of a lifetime.” |
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July
5th 2007 |
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new interview with John Lydon has
been posted on JohnLydon.Com.
The interview reveals the truth behind
the recent – or not so recent as the case
may be – Rolling
Stone interview; and
previews the 'Bodog:
Battle of the Bands'
series which is due to start on Fuse TV
in the States this Sunday, July
8th at 10pm
EST / 7pm PST. See JL.Com for
full info… |
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interview with Lydon is featured in the
August issue of Uncut magazine.
John dismisses Simon Reynolds argument
that PiL were a more important band
than the Pistols: "Whoever Simon
Reynolds is, he's wrong. He has no knowledge
of what happened back then and he dares
compare one aspect of my life to another…
The Pistols were as important to me as
when I fell out of the pram and
learned to walk." |
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Last
month's issue of Mojo magazine featured
a Jah Wobble penned
article on the 1967 album
'Call of the Valley' by Indian classical
musician Pandit Shivkumar Sharma.
Thanks to "The
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| 'Realeyesation' – the Carpetface track
featuring Keith Levene – received
another release back in February. The
double A-side 7" single 'Spread
it Around / Realeyesation' was released
on Carpetface's New Bias label (NBI006)
on Valentines Day. You can listen to
both tracks on Carpetface's
MySpace. |
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June
18th 2007 |
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The
pen is mightier than the chopper…
Jah
Wobble reviews the latest effort on
Sid Vicious in The
Independent on Sunday. |
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June
13th 2007 |
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When
asked by a fan on Ian Wright's Talksport radio
show last Thursday, June 8th, John
Lydon stated "anything
was possible…" regarding
the return of PiL in
some shape or form. However, he did repeat
that if he does go out with PiL it would
most likely be with a new line-up and
new material…
You can listen to the whole Talksport
interview by checking out JohnLydon.Com
JohnLydon.Com also
pours scorn on reports in last Friday's Daily
Mirror that Lydon is about to release
a "reggae" album! See JL.Com for
full info… |
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| The
second – and final – part
of 'Jah
Wobble's Mystical Musical Tour'
is currently available via
the BBC
World Service website. Select 'Heart
& Soul' from the A-Z programme
list on the site's home page. |
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The
long-awaited NIC (Necessary
Intergalactic Cooperation) album featuring Keith
Levene is now set for a September release;
via Malicious Damage Records. See the NIC
MySpace page for previews and updates… |
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| Pete
Jones has a new interview
for GearWire.com.
Ben McLees of Earth Loop Recall has
remixed Petes' track 'Murder'
and is now available at Pete's website and MySpace pages. |
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| The
eighth installment of Martin
Atkins 'Tour:Smart' column for SuicideGirls.com is
now online… |
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June
8th 2007 |
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'Jah
Wobble's Mystical Musical Tour'
continues tomorrow Saturday,
June 9th at 10.30pm
on the BBC
World Service.
If
– like everyone else – you
missed the first part of the series
you can now listen to it via the BBC
World Service website. Select 'Heart
& Soul' from the A-Z programme
list on the site's home page.
BBC
World Service Publicity
Heart & Soul – Jah
Wobble Ep 2/2
Saturday 9 June
10.30-11.00pm
Jah Wobble (real name John Wardle) concludes
his investigation into the mystical use
of sound by exploring how the human voice
is used as a direct means of communicating
with the divine.
He finds out how Nigerian
Yoruba traditions survived the transatlantic
slave trade to find new expressions in
Cuba, while a Cuban singer-priestess
explains the central role of singing
in calling down the gods. Jah Wobble
also returns to his own roots in the
west of Ireland to investigate the proud
tradition of singing the Mass in Irish.
Jah Wobble
found fame in the Eighties as Johnny
Rotten's bass player in Public Image
Ltd. He survived punk to become a respected
musicologist with a fascination for the
relationship between music and spirituality.
Presenter/Jah Wobble,
Producer/Kirsten Dwight
Thanks to "The
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June
4th 2007 |
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The
first part of 'Jah Wobble's
Mystical Musical Tour' actually
went out last Saturday, June 2nd. The
second part will air this Saturday, June
9th.
Sorry about that, but
as Patrick MacArdle says on The
List "as
it happens
the World Service decided to broadcast
the first episode of Jah Wobble's Mystical
Musical Tour on Saturday last without
telling anyone…"
Update: If
– like everyone else – you
missed the first part of the series
you can now listen to it via the BBC
World Service website. Select 'Heart
& Soul' from the A-Z programme
list on the site's home page.
BBC
World Service Publicity
Heart & Soul – Jah
Wobble Ep 1/2
Saturday 2 June
10.30-11.00pm
Jah Wobble
(real name John Wardle) found fame in
the Eighties as Johnny Rotten's bass
player in Public Image Ltd. He survived
punk to become a respected musicologist
with a fascination for the relationship
between music and spirituality.
He talks
to religious worshippers, musicologists,
psychologists and theologians about the
mystical use of sound, playing his beloved
bass alongside musicians from mainstream
and ancient religions.
Investigating
the power of percussion and melody, Jah
Wobble embarks on a series of conversations
with musicians from a diversity of spiritual
traditions. He begins his journey close
to home with a London conga drummer,
then meets a Nepalese shaman, a mbira
player from the Shona people of Zimbabwe,
and a master drummer who shows him the
Talking Drum of Nigeria. He finds out
how rhythms and melodies are used in
healing, to create heightened states
of consciousness and to invoke the ancestors.
Presenter/Jah
Wobble, Producer/Kirsten Dwight
Thanks to "The
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June
3rd 2007 |
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Wobble's
two part radio series for BBC
World Service begins
Saturday, June 9th. 'Jah Wobble's Mystical Musical
Tour' will
"explore the ways in which drumming and droning, chanting and singing
connect people to the sacred…"
Jah Wobble's
XFM radio session will also
be broadcast this week. Wobble is 'Artist
in residence' on John Kennedy's XFM
'Exposure' show, Monday-Thursday, June
4-7th, from 10pm-1am. Listeners outside
of London should be able to listen
online via the XFM
website.
Thanks to "The
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The
current issue of Rolling
Stone magazine in
the USA includes a John Lydon interview
as part of a feature on the 30th anniversary
of 'Never Mind The Bollocks'. Last years
re-issue of 'Metal Box' also gets a brief
mention.
In the article
Lydon comments Virgin gave up on PiL due
to the PiL imitators they signed
instead. He also says at present no record
company seems interested in his new
solo work…
Thanks to Steve Miller |
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May
29th 2007 |
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John
Lydon is interviewed in the
third episode of BBC's '7
Ages Of Rock' next Saturday,
June 2nd at 9pm (UK). The official website for
the series makes a mention of PiL,
however, it is unclear whether they are
included in the show…
Update:
'Poptones' from the OGWT 1980
was used at the end of the show. Speaking about the
move onto PiL from the Pistols Lydon commented: "I
love the idea of just going into things
without any rules at all. Go into much
madder sounds; infinite variety of textures.
Tones. Drones. Caterwauls… Experiment." |
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Jah
Wobble and the English Roots
Band headlined the Kumu Festival
in Estonia last Friday, May 25th, and
are now preparing for the Wickerman Festival
in July. An appearance at Bestival on
the Isle of White is also lined up for
September; with the possibility of some
'Heart & Soul' club dates before the
end of the year. Keep an eye
on 30
Hertz or "The
List" for updates …
Wobble is about to do some new recording
with
Sinead O'Connor; and has
been working on a two part radio series
for the BBC World
Service exploring the mystical
uses of musical sounds in the furthest
and remotest reaches of the world. |
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A
new interview with Keith Levene appears
in Julien Temple's documentary
film about Joe Strummer 'The
Future is Unwritten'. Keith only
appears in a few short snippets, but at
least he hasn't been wiped from
existence; like the previous Don Letts
Clash film…
Richard Dudanski also
appears in the film.
Thanks to Karsten |
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| Pete
Jones has
launched his own Soundclick
site, which features
the new track 'The
Baird 2'. |
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May
9th 2007 |
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 This article on the PopMatters
website takes a look
at the 'Flowers of Romance'
album.
Public Image Ltd., The Flowers of Romance
(Warner Bros., 1981)
You don’t need distorted guitars
to make noisy music. Heck, you don’t
even need guitars, sometimes! For the
most part, this third effort by John
Lydon/Rotten’s experimental post-Sex
Pistols outfit eschews guitars and embraces
minimalism, using drums and off-kilter
synthesizer noises. So how can it be
noisy? Because Lydon does away with his
usual pop song structures and/or danceable
rhythms and instead comes up with nine
discordant numbers all centered around
his jarring voice. Additionally, bassist
Jah Wobble had recently quit, so the
band simply didn’t use a bass here,
making the sound even more off-balance.
The Trouser Press Record Guide’s
fourth edition notes that a record executive
once called this LP “one of the
most uncommercial records ever made at
least in a pop context.” 25 years
on, that assertion still rings true.
Read the full article by Tony Sclafani
at PopMatters |
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The
Guardian recently published a feature
about "Gigs with a Twist" mentioning
the infamous 1981
Ritz show.
Perform behind a screen
Tiring of the audio-visual expectations
of Sex Pistols fans, John Lydon's post-Pistols
band Public Image Limited played a
1981 gig at the New York Ritz from
behind a projection screen. Well, "gig" is
stretching it. In fact, some PIL records
were played through the PA, while Lydon
taunted the audience, who had expected
to at least see the musicians. In the
resulting riot, the stage was pelted
with bottles and stage equipment was
toppled. Lydon was lucky to get out
alive. That didn't stop Pulp trying
a similar event in Edinburgh in 1999,
when a less riotous audience expecting
Common People were bemused by a set
of experimental material, performed
behind Venetian blinds. |
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| The newly launched www.vh1classic.com website
features 2 PiL promo videos 'Rise' & 'Bad
Life'. However, you will need to be based
in North America to view them… |
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 Martin
Atkins Tour:Smart is
now available to pre-order via
the Underground
Inc site. The 592
page book centres on "the business
of touring"
and looks at "everything from booking
and transportation, to contracts, radio,
and sex on the road!"
A new website dedicated to book has
just been launched at www.tstouring.com.
Martin is continuing his online
Tour:Smart column for Suicide
Girls. See the SuicideGirls
website for more info.
Martin also has a retrospective gallery
show, entitled 'The
Religion of Marketing' opening this
Friday, May 11th in Chicago. The show
will feature a selection of
memorabilia from his
time in PiL, Killing Joke, Ministry,
Pigface, Brian Brain etc;
and includes "never-seen-photos
from his time in PiL" from
LA, Japan, Australia, and the recording
studio. The show will run through
the month of May in Chicago and will also
be touring… See The
Religion of Marketing website for more
info.
Thanks to Pat Van Hulle |
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Two recently
released Killing Joke archive
CD's feature Martin Atkins.
The 3 CD box set 'Bootleg
Vinyl Archive Vol.1' (Candlelight
180) includes a mixing desk recording with
Atkins from London 21.12.88. 'Inside
Extremities Mixes Rehearsals and Live'
(Candlelight 177) is a double CD of material
taken from the preparation for the 'Extremities'
album and features Atkins on every track.
Thanks to Tim Bucknall (welcome back!) |
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Look
out for a new Jah Wobble radio
session on
John Kennedy's XFM 'Exposure'
show. The session was recorded at the end
of April and should be broadcast soon.
Listeners outside of London should be able
to listen online via the XFM
website.
Thanks to "The
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April
15th 2007 |
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|  The
long-awaited NIC (Necessary
Intergalactic Cooperation) album featuring
Keith Levene is set for
a July release; via Malicious
Damage Records.
The
album – which also features
contributions from trumpeter Nils Petter-Molvaer
– was recorded in Spring 2006
at Ted Parsons studio in Norway (see News
June 11th 2006 for full info).
NIC
have posted some preview tracks
on their MySpace
page. If the track 'Driftin' is anything
to go by it should be a very interesting
album…
Thanks to Malicious Damage |
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Credits (top to bottom)
Tom Snyder, NBC, Tomorrow Show, June 27th
1980 © NBC
Flowers of Romance LP 1981
Martin Atkins
Tour:Smart book
Keith Levene in the studio with NIC, April
2006 © & Thanks
to Ted Parsons |
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John
Lydon: The Best of British £1 Notes
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John
Lydon CD & DVD compilations featuring
Sex Pistols, PiL, solo,
plus an exclusive new track. |
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sleeves for JohnLydon.Com 'Best of British
£1 Notes' mini-site,
featuring tracklistings, release info,
a new interview with John, plus much more… |
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John
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JohnLydon.Com
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